No Felipe it is not the driver. The driver is not used for normal CD playing. It is purely hardware. Nor is it true to say that because it works in Windows that your cable is OK.
Your problem is probably either a/ Your mixer is turned down. Check Kmenu>Multimedia>Sound>Sound mixer set the setting of your choice and then save as default. b/Your audio cable is not present despite it working in Windows. Read this post and all will become clear. http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.php?t=1533 derek On Monday 08 Jul 2002 1:41 am, Filipe wrote: > Mdk 8.20 - motherboard with Sound and Video onboard (PCchips M590). > > After installation, I tried to listen to an Audio CD but have no sound. I > can hear the standard sound when Linux begins but nothing from CD. The CD > drive and cable are ok because I can listen CD at Win98 and from Dos. I can > even listen to tracks from Konqueror file manager but not from CD. (they > are tranfered to HD then played by Noatun). > > I think the problem is the driver. The board uses CMI8330 (ISA) sound > driver. At Cmedia site I discovered that the oldest linux driver is CMI8338 > (last digit is different). They do not have linux driver for CMI8330. > However, the system installed the driver CMI8338 which is PCI. Maybe, this > is the reason for not having sound from CD drive. > > Well, the sound manual, that came with motherboard CD, informs that sound > chipset is full compatible with Soundblaster 16 / PRO / 2.0. So, I think > that I can uninstall CMI8338 driver and install SB16 driver. I found three > SB16 files already saved at HD (they sould be the driver files): > snd-card-sb16.o.gz > snd-sb16-csp.o.gz > snd-sb16-dsp.o.gz > > The problem is that I don't know how to do it. I went to harddrake > > hardlist > sound board > mark CMD 8338 C3D (first line) and click over > button "Run configuration tool" but nothing happens. > > How can I change the sound driver ?? > > Thanks for the help > > PS: At other devices line (those not recognized) there are other three > lines: two for sound (CMD 8338 C3D) and other for PCI bridge driver. > > > Filipe Dutra > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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